One Month Old!

Elden was one month old yesterday! A lot has happened in the last month and I am glad that it has gone by fairly quickly.

He is up to 29 milliliters on his feedings and weighs 3 pounds 5.5 ounces! He is doing really well. Learning to eat of the bottle is something we are working on right now. He is only "33" weeks, so my expectations of him drinking all of the milk out of the bottle have been low. Elden gets to drink out of bottle once a day. Yesterday he drank 16 milliliters! Today he surprised Lee and I even more and he drank ALL of the 29 milliliters from the bottle. YEAH!

I want to go home by mid-May. (Well, I'd love to go home now.) Hopefully we'll be able to!

Some pictures of Elden on Easter



This is the bottle he ate out of today. My thumb is pointing to how much he drank.


He is still a little guy! Notice the size of my hand compared to his head.



Here I am burping him.



Before he drank all of the milk...




The nurses here do cute things for the babies. One or some of the nurses made these little bunnies for all the isolettes. They also have a Books for Babies program and the nurses buy books for the babies. They also put the babies' foot prints on the front cover of their book.




Pictures of Cal that he wanted me to take of his cherry tomatoes, March 27.



The quality of the pictures isn't that great. Sorry Mom R!

Lee and I were able to do something last night that we haven't been able to do in a few years. It took some careful planning on our part, but it all came to fruition last night: we were able to attend the adult session of Stake Conference by ourselves! I'll let you in on our secret. (Getting a babysitter would be too easy and would ruin the whole thing!) We worked it out so that I would be on bedrest, and sent a memo to Elden to be born early. This enabled my kids to go hours away from home to stay with my sisters so we could enjoy this evening by ourselves. Thanks Deb, Lena, Mom and Dad!

Twice a year our church holds conferences for the church members in a particular region. Saturday night there is a meeting for the adults and Sunday there is a meeting for the whole family. Lee and I love the adult session of Stake Conference. But the past several years we've had our kids in tow too. We really would rather have our family all back together, but since we're not, it was nice to enjoy this meeting with just Lee and I.

Today for the rest of Stake Conference, we enjoyed a great broadcast from Salt Lake. We really enjoyed the speakers. I loved what was said about Easter and that we essentially celebrate Easter every time we partake of the Sacrament. And I thought it was very fitting for President Monson to tell a Christmas story about boys giving service to some widowed ladies. People talk about having the Christmas spirit all year round, and there is no better time than Easter to restate that. Our Savior lives and we should always strive to be like him and remember him. We are so thankful for all of your Christ-like service to us through your emails, notes, prayers, fasting, babysitting, meals, packages, visits, etc.